bdi: introduce BDI_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO
As discussed at
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/<
20170728165604[email protected]>
someday we will remove rw_page(). If so, we need something to detect
such super-fast storage on which synchronous IO operations like the
current rw_page are always a win.
Introduces BDI_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO to indicate such devices. With it, we
could use various optimization techniques.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Huang Ying <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>